The Mrs regulated my work bench to the outdoors! To messy for the house...
Not real messy buy not real straight either.
Originally Posted by Chugman:
This is the first photo I could find of the non-model side of my workshop area. It's worse than it looks in this picture.
Art,
That is almost operating room clean!!
A train guy can never have to many work benches.
There are five in this 1936 home. I use all five for model railroading. The garage & shed is used for things like spray lacquers & paint. The table saw, power miter saw, grinder & drill press are in the garage. For final assembly, I use the Darkroom & Man Cave. Hot water tank room is for shipping & receiving.They are all a little messy.
See all five work benches below, click photo to enlarge.
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I am pleased to see that I am a perfectly normal slob. My main work bench is an old,
inherited kitchen table, the second an old living room table, and others are office
store folding tables....the first gets cleaned when a project is finished, but is soon
buried when another project is moved to or begun on it. Other project simmer on the
other tables.
Here's Mine........Sorry, that's just the way I am! Lol
FREDSTRAINS
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Another View................What can I say?
FREDSTRAINS
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Originally Posted by Fredstrains:
Another View................What can I say?
FREDSTRAINS
Fred, your work bench does not qualify, It's too clean. Just kidding, it looks good. I just moved my work area off of the dining room table to a newly set up bench in my den. I do anything messy out in the garage. I will try to post a photo later today.
A Little Better View.
FREDSTRAINS
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Jeeze Fred, that work bench puts most of us to shame.
My Wife sez: "I am a very anal person"! What does she mean anyway??
Fred
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LOL
Originally Posted by handyandy:
"A place for everything, and everything all over the place!"
I don't have space for a train only workbench so I have to keep stuff picked up. I use a folding TV table for most train related work.
Ah feel yore pain, Andy. My "workbench" is the top of the washing machine.
I can very much appreciate the "messy workbench" dilemna, this video taken on a "not so messy" day, I added this loop to my workbench so I could run trains (and test) when I'm either working on trains or other things.
Problem is, the bench gets messy and I can't run the loop.
My issue is the size of my workbench. I made it too long, and about 1/2 of it has become a parking place for things that I don't have room to store. All good stuff though 
Ok hear you go Spence this is how my bench looks today. I pulled my truck out of the way to get the shot. You can notice I am ready for the snow to start falling. My Cub Cadet is now baried in the front of the Garage. My Ariens is sitting & ready to go.
Spence liked the photo I posted in September so I decided to post some more with these updated today. You can see my bench just right of the door.
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Currently not very nice. And to think I'm called a clean freak by my family.
Larry
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I tidied mine up to make this picture.
Pete
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My work bench is incredibly clean, I don't have one. I live in a condo so no place to work except the dining room table but hey, it works. Any project gets stored under the layout till I'm done.
Here's Mine................
FREDSTRAINS
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Damm Fred that is too straight, you need to mess it up a little. Lol
I have always said the same thing.NickOriginally Posted by tackindy:
If its clean you aren't working hard enough!
got mine pretty well straighten up tonight. It'll be better when I'm done reorganizing the platform.
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My wife says I should be ashamed that my workbench isn't neat like all those depicted above.
I know there is a work bench under here somewhere!
Does this qualify? This was right after completing most of the dynamic test stand build. Most tools etc. have been cleared away!
And there is this area. There is a 2X6-foot work bench to the left of the 12"X36" metal lathe.
Ron
There is a cool Moen commercial where the faucet head acts as a hand sprayer and returns back when you let go...in the commercial, the guy's tools all helicopter back to where they are supposed to be from the workbench, leaving it all neat and clean, that would be neat.
My work bench is buried under 7 or 8 locomotives, 2 of which are actually not taken apart. The rest of the space is taken up by some LED lights from Halloween, a pair of speakers and parts from the engines that are in pieces! I actually started working on a corner of my layout table that has not had track laid on it yet. It helps that the table is 4' tall, much easier on my broken body.
PRRronbh, that's a sweet test stand. Did you build the roller essemblies? If you bought them, could you please share where they were purchased. I have 4 rollers, but would like to buy 2-4 more. Thank you.
Originally Posted by tunelvr7:
My work bench is buried under 7 or 8 locomotives, 2 of which are actually not taken apart. The rest of the space is taken up by some LED lights from Halloween, a pair of speakers and parts from the engines that are in pieces! I actually started working on a corner of my layout table that has not had track laid on it yet. It helps that the table is 4' tall, much easier on my broken body.
PRRronbh, that's a sweet test stand. Did you build the roller essemblies? If you bought them, could you please share where they were purchased. I have 4 rollers, but would like to buy 2-4 more. Thank you.
Richard, the rollers are made by JAK. Although some of these were slightly modified to fit my overall design requirements.
Ron
